, 1887-12-16
Republican Club Convention.

NCPuDl1CdA SluD SOnNGuI1Ou.
New YORK, Dec. l5.-The first ma
tional Republican club convention was
called to order at IL o'clock, about 1000
delegates from nearly all the states and
territories in the Union being present.
After the reading of the call, James p.
Foster, president of the Republican CLUB
of New York, welcomed the delegates.
AT 1;20 p. M, after a long contest involv-
ing the call of the roll. the convention
chose Hon. Daniel j. Ryan, of Ohio,
temporary chairman by a vote of l59 to
l54 over Gen. Nathan Golf, of West Vir-
ginia
Mr.. Foster, in the course of his re-
marks, outlined the purpose Of the meet
ing as follows: We propose to organize
to go out and beyond an individual in
order that we may work for some end and
some principle higher and broader than a
single man Hence, We have by common
consent agreed to that just and only true
rule, that this convention shall not name,
recommend or nominate any candidate for
Office
We propose an organization whereby
the teachings of a tariff to protect the
industries of the land may be readily and
quickly disseminated in plain language to
be understood by wage earners and wage
payers; a tariff high enough to reduce the
surplus and to give employment to our
citizens at home; TO ensure a market for
our goods, and a living to workmon better
than the pauper labor of Europe has ever
known. We propose an organization
that dlscountenances and puts to shame
those personal attacks upon candidates
whereby private character and home life
are hngpIV assembled opI nnblin Soap1ol
for political ends u~njustly created.
We propose an organization that shall
say to the saloon: BE We removed from
politics Applause You who create
paupers and insanity and criminals shall
no longer WELD the power of government
in this land This then is the mission of
our organization"
Judge Ryan, on taking the chair, said:
We are here to-day to r~eorganizc the
clubs of the country into permanent or
ganization. We are here to boom the
Republican party, and not any one in it.
We are here on a most important business
occasion, believing that we must get down
to business at once. | shall now ask your
pleasure"
A number of secretaries were then
chosen and a vice president for each state
selected. This was slow work and at its
conclusion the convention adjourned until
tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
This evening the clubs held a public
meeting in Cooper Union. Hon. John
IL. Lynch, the colored orator of Mis-.
sissippi, said he was here to speak on the
suppression of the colored vote in the
South. by form of law" said he,
cleveland is president, but morally he
has no more right there than he has TO
the throne of Great Britain. Cleveland
could nc more get the electoral votes of
Mississippi, Louisiana and South Caro-
lima than he could those of Pennsylvania,
Vermont and Ohio. There are over
10000 more colored men than white in
Mississippi. Not less hal one-third Of
the whites vote the Republican ticket,
and not more than one-tenth of the
blacks vote the Democratic ticket, yet that
state Is always surely Democratic. They go
through forms of election down there, but
as soon as the Democratic conventions
are over the polls are closed. Some
times there is difficulty in getting the
Democrats to falsify the returns. When
frustrated this way they sometimes resort
to violence. These frauds are perpetrated,
mainly, because the general sentiment of
The country tolerateS them, and until the
people of the North get their eyes open
these things will continue in the South"
The speakers idea of a remedy was to
reduce the representation of the Southern
states. Then, if the cOlorcd man could
not be represented they would have the
satisfaction Of knowing that the vote was
not going to the enemy-congressmen to
represent the colored men who are virtu
ally DISTINGUISHED
Speaker Noyes, of the Massachusetts
house of representatives, commended the
address of Mr.. Lynch. Tariff is of small
Importance compared with the question
of human rights. Cleveland has thrown
a gauntlet into the arena that the Re
publicans will quickly take up. The
president issued a proclamation that had
in it the platform of the party, and a citi-
zen across the water criticized it great
cheeringl, and it spread over the world,
giving it many readers where it only
would have. had one.